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West Water Street in Harrisonburg, Virginia is the place where my love of music developed shape and structure. While attending James Madison University, I brought together friends Patrick Fritz (P-Fritz) on guitar and Bed Noble (B-Luv) on drums, and we created a college band at my house on West Water Street. We explored improvisation and the groove, and I stepped into the world of listening. At Indidog Studios with Bill Cardine, we recorded several songs I had written on an album entitled west water street.
 When we were joined by Mike (the Captain) Morgan on trombone we navigated in a more jazzy direction. The second album, House Recipe, was an EP that set out to capture our groovy sound in a collaborative writing effort done up in the studio by producer Dylan King. This is an interactive CD with a music video for "Tomato."
 Then it was time for me to take West Water Street on the road. I traveled the East Coast – to Florida and back up to Boston – then caught a cross-country tour with the Washington, DC group, The Velveteens, as lead guitar player. It was in Washington, DC that I recorded A Couple of Blocks From West Water Street and began working with engineer Todd Stevens at Deaf Ear Music.
 From DC I headed to the Live Music Capitol to reconnect with West Water Street’s manager, Kevin Shulte. In Austin, I performed as a solo bassist and I caught in with Peacetrain, a local hard-hitting rock and roll band. After Texas, I put together the West Water Street for President tour and recorded the album of the same name. This album saw the entrance of our graphic artist, Bud Snead.
 Alternate Take, highlighting the work of futurist, TJ Huff, was recorded a few months later on a winter excursion through Virginia. This album is strictly improvisation.
 Captain Morgan kicked the notch up to eleven with Open Issues, West Water Street’s sixth album, and featured Cap’s mural to the world of a loop artist at play with a spray gun.
 B-Luv’s album, An Onion Rotting in the Sun as the Tide Turns into a Slowly Melting Donkey continued the metamorphosis and captures live performances of west water street continuing to explore improvisation and the groove.
 West Water Street and the Water Street Band was written in Las Vegas, NV, and was recorded with Blake Surbey and Todd at Deaf Ear Music in Washington D.C. P-Fritz came in with Drew Thomas, and Willy White and Ryan Brown sat in; James Brown was my Executive Producer in Las Vegas.
 During a North Eastern excursion between work on cruise ships, i recorded Sketches of West Water Street (1962-2010) with TJ Huff and Captain Morgan in New York. Upstate New York and New York City, that is. Using my loop pedal, we created a "live" environment across the State and continued to search and expand.
 West Water Street for lovers is currently being written while i am touring as bass player and Road Manager for the World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra.
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